Garybills

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If this is the look you want, auto build roofs and set the eave overhang however far you want, set the side walls roofs to upper pitch.

I have a MSI Stealth that’s 3 1/2 years old, it has an RTX 3070 and still runs X17 pretty well. Im not sure how well the 5060 will perform!!!! I’ve been rough on mine moving it around a lot, the screen hinge screws strip out so have it bolted together. It’s still working good.

You can do it without starting over, I couldn't get the front gable to cut in to the gambrel roof to be open inside the room. I had auto-build roofs on for the gambrels and then adjusted the front gable and the deck roofs. Hop this helps. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qi7rv6yy1xmhuz86kgka8/richter_2026_04_12-Edited-Roof.caproj?rlkey=trsdggnu4ng7aak74epecyg5t&dl=0

Look under General, File management

For some reason the walls beside the stairs and my arched doorways were messed up and that’s the only way I could get them to work. I’m sure it could be done but copy/paste and drag in place, a couple minutes and it worked. Sure not a normal situation!!!

Do you have the roof defaults set to trusses? That will disable the raise/lower option.

I use both because I work with other users that haven't upgraded yet, but I went ahead and finished everything I'd started in X16 and didn't try to transfer to x17. I have opened a few that were finished in x17, and everything seems to be ok.

Well, I had to try it. It's not really easy but I used curved roof planes and concrete walls with double arched doorways. There are actually 6 roof planes, two on each side of the concrete walls and two between the walls with a roof hole over the stairs. I didn't make it to your room size so the settings will be different, and I used X17'

Is this what they are calling a perch?

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Is it just the working layer set or all sets? Did you happen to accidentally toggle off the color tool?

You can get the two lower sections with auto roofs by setting the side walls to have upper pitch, but then you’ll probably have to manually draw the upper section and adjust the center section.

You can also make a complete break in the stairs wherever you need the wall to end.

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